Hello again!
-> AJ> Right, someone else suggested using it, so I did and it's
-> AJ> doing the job. I just didn't find out how to enter the subject
-> AJ> information from the command line. I believe nothing is
-> AJ> perfect...
-> You don't understand the way that InterNet EMAIL works if you are
-> asking this question. The email message has headers at the top that
-> look like so:
As I told you, I'm an ISP, I know many things about how the email system
works, I also know that there are many things that I still have to learn
and almost every day I learn something new.
But, my main lack of knowledge is with the sendmail package that comes
with OS/2. I got use to the one that comes with Win95 that is just an
utility to send e-mail through an SMTP server, to a particular e-mail
address, attaching a file specified in the command line.
I thought that the OS/2 one was something similar, now after dealing
some with the program I know that is a complete SMTP server, ported to
OS/2 from the Unix version that is very known. At least that's what I've
understood.
-> The indented lines are actually wrapped from the previous. To
-> succesfully send email to the net, you want to have headers like this
-> in your message file. You then take the file with the headers and
-> content and send it to sendmail with the to and from information on a
-> command line. This two and from does not get reflected or added to
-> the headers and is known as the "wrapper". The wrapper for the above
-> message was addressed to: weaving-list@drakkar.mhv.net
Maybe my biggest mistake was the fact that I didn't tell what I was
trying to do with sendmail in the first place, here it goes: In Fido,
mostly all my downlinks are using FTP to send/receive their mail
packages but some doesn't have access to that type of connection, only
e-mail. What I need to do in some of my events is to send their packages
to their e-mail addresses. What I'm doing right now is: first I uuencode
the packages and send the uuencoded file with sendmail using a command
like this: sendmail -a encoded.fil -t downlink@somewhere.com
It's working well, but I would like to add a subject line so my
downlinks could keep track of what they're receiving, something like:
Subject: Automatic Message # XXXXX
If I understand what you said, if I add this line to the beginning of
the file that has the encoded information it would be considered as the
e-mail subject line, right?
BTW, using the -a and -t parameters with sendmail, not only adds the
wrapper line, but some others like the Date: line, Message-Id:,
Apparently-To:, etc.
-> Notice the To: header is not the same as the wrapper... that is
-> because who a message is addressed to doesn't have any bearing on who
-> is receiving the message. This allows for the use of CCs and BCCs and
-> sending a message for A but to the address B.
Right, I know that.
-> InterNet EMAIL is very complicated. If you are attempting getting
-> your system moving internet email with your BBS then you want to get
-> something like GIGO to do it for you as it does a superb job of it.
I'm sure that it would and I also have GIGO in some place in my hard
disk, the only problem that I have is that I don't have the time to
dedicate to learn a package like that which doesn't seem very easy to
set up.
I've been using the 'sendmail' method from a command line in my events
for quite some time, it has been working flawlessly and I'm very
satisfied with it.
Thanks again for your time and help.
Greetings,
@X00@X0E
Adolfo Justiniano º Santa Cruz, BOLIVIA º Santa Cruz BBS: +591 3 37-1133
 Fidonet: 4:823/1 º   RIME: SANTACRUZ   º e-mail: sysop@scbbs-bo.com@XFF
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